A nice piece on Verity, our newly released tool to minimise false LLM claims for locally hosted AI. Thanks gor spreading the word @theregister.com. Verity is free to use and adapt. www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/0...

Dubliners, what is going on here?

We are releasing Verity a tool to minimise false LLM claims and sources. It can run on cheap, old hardware. Verity's code is now published for anyone to use, test, adapt, and improve. You can use it and build upon it for free. www.iccl.ie/digital-data...

This is very welcome news today that the Oireachtas Media Committee has recommended that recommender algorithms be disabled for children and turned off by default for adults. ICCL has long highlighted the dangers of algorithms and campaigned for them to be switched off.

We are releasing Verity a tool to minimise false LLM claims and sources. It can run on cheap, old hardware. Verity's code is now published for anyone to use, test, adapt, and improve. You can use it and build upon it for free. www.iccl.ie/digital-data...

Wie wurde Europa so anfällig für den Einfluss von Big Tech-Konzernen? Der Leiter von Enforce & Adtech-Kritiker Johnny Ryan (@johnnyryan.bsky.social) diskutiert auf der #rp26 die damit verbunden Gefahren und skizziert mögliche Lösungen. ➡️ re-publica.com/en/news/rp26...

I'm speaking Re:Publica in Berlin next week How do we avoid dystopia? Session details --> re-publica.com/de/session/h...

It is good to see CnaM do something. However, this fight over what the off switch for dangerous algorithms looks like on Meta is crazy - the GDPR prohibits these algorithms from being on in the first place.

German (ARD) documentary on digital scams and the data that powers them was watched by 3.71 million viewers last night! See Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung piece www.faz.net/aktuell/feui... Watch on ARD --> www.ardmediathek.de/video/hirsch...

Later today, at the Oireachtas (Irish Parliament) EU Affairs Committee, I will call for Ireland to recuse itself from all digital issues during its EU Council Presidency. Ireland’s regulatory sabotage of EU data law has exposed Europe’s children to serious mental harm. www.iccl.ie/press-releas...

A thought: will the Vatican City be the first state in Europe to free itself from U.S. tech dependence?

🔎📱 Just before Hungary’s election, we revealed Viktor Orbán’s intelligence agencies secretly use Webloc – an Israeli mass surveillance tool tracking hundreds of millions via smartphone ad data – making Hungary the first confirmed EU user, likely violating GDPR. @vsquare.bsky.social @citizenlab.ca

Important reporting from NYT AI overviews above search results are wrong about 10% of the time, but the scale of this is so vast that it really matters. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/t...

Lili might be right www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/w...

The reality is those countries that switched to renewables are now much more insulated from the crisis than those that didn't. Yet there will be many conservatives in Europe that will fall for this BS from the US State Department. Sad.

Kudos to @micheal-martin.bsky.social for this clear and direct criticism

Job opportunity We are hiring an AI expert to join ICCL Enforce www.iccl.ie/digital-data...

Job opportunity We are hiring an AI expert to join ICCL Enforce www.iccl.ie/digital-data...

Ireland is blocking ICCL from taking the cases it needs to take to protect vulnerable children against dangerous and addictive social media companies. www.irishtimes.com/technology/2...

Response from the President of the @ec.europa.eu It would have been good if the President had provided links or citation to the evidence. www.iccl.ie/wp-content/u...

My testimony at the Oireachtas (Irish Parliament) Justice Committee yesterday evening: new documents reveal serious problems in the recruitment process for Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner.

This afternoon I will speak at the Oireachtas Justice Committee. I will share new information obtained by ICCL about the latest Data Protection Commissioner recruitment process, in which a former Meta spokesperson was appointed Ireland's new Data Protection Commissioner. www.iccl.ie/press-releas...

Good interview by @hlinehan.bsky.social with Eoin Drea. podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/i...

My conversation (long) with Oles Andriychuk on Tech, Competition, Privacy, Power is now live www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIkc...

Trump inadvertently boosts the Green energy agenda apnews.com/article/midd...

Before The Smyths there was Patrick Kavanagh

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We reaffirm our firm commitment to the principles of international law and the rules-based order everywhere in the world.

I have just held a call with President Pedro Sánchez to express the EU’s full solidarity with Spain. The EU will always ensure that the interests of its Member States are fully protected.

Apple + Microsoft + Eli Lilly paid 46% of all corporate tax to Ireland in 2024 See note from the Ireland's Fiscal Advisory Council. - www.fiscalcouncil.ie/new-council-... - www.irishtimes.com/business/eco...

US Border Patrol admits using Real-Time Bidding (RTB) data to track people's movements. The failure to enforce against the RTB data breach at the heart of online advertising is very, very dangerous. Big scoop by @josephcox.bsky.social @404media.co! www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...

And @alankellytipp.bsky.social has a point here www.rte.ie/news/politic...

I'm literally in tears listening to President Catherine Connolly's fierce speech about the silence about ongoing genocide, how the rule of law, humans rights, civil liberties, and freedoms are diminishing before our eyes... at the 50th anniversary of the @iccl.bsky.social

Temu booked €1.7B in Europe through Dublin. But what about tax? Documents indicate that the "Double Irish" is back. The Irish State claims ignorance. Clip - See exchange in the Irish Parliament yesterday between Sinéad Gibney and Minister Jack Chambers.

This idea is gathering some support - see @martinsandbu.ft.com in the FT today www.ft.com/content/b92f...

Irish Data Protection Commission was asked today in Committee: have you ever taken a GDPR decision on Google? Answer... No. Ireland is responsible for supervising Google's data use across the whole EU. It has produced no decisions. Kudos @sineadgibney.bsky.social for asking the question.

Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) is responsible for protecting people across the EU because tech firms put their HQ offices in Ireland. DPC admitted today that it hasn't finished a single Google investigation since the GDPR was introduced. Kudos @sineadgibney.bsky.social for asking

Irish Data Protection Commission was asked today in Committee: have you ever taken a GDPR decision on Google? Answer... No. Ireland is responsible for supervising Google's data use across the whole EU. It has produced no decisions. Kudos @sineadgibney.bsky.social for asking the question.

Switch recommender algorithms off They should not be on anyway, per GDPR Art 9 and AI Act Art 5 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Europeans are dangerously reliant on US tech. Now is a good time to build our own | Johnny Ryan

My piece in The Guardian this morning: Europe’s path to technological independence from the U.S. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"the Commission recalls that as far as the dominant position of IBM in the European market is concerned ... will be vigilant to ensure that there is no use of such a dominant position" From 1974 aei.pitt.edu/97739/1/1974...

Boom!

EU Leaders meet tomorrow to discuss measures to lift Europe's anaemic growth rate. But the summit risks turning into a nothing burger. EU Leaders have cherry-picked a macroeconomically meaningless simplification agenda from the Draghi report New oped. 1/ www.politico.eu/article/euro...

I said this quietly to senior officials in Ireland over the last 12 months. Now it requires public statement. Ireland became rich because -among other reasons- it is the venue where US tech firms can operate in Europe with relative impunity. But this strategy may not last much longer.

The Sánchez 🇪🇸 government has - built Europe's boom economy - hiked minimum wage from €736 to €1221 - cut insecure work from c.30% to c.13% - regularised, not demonised, migrants - stood up for human rights - refused to humiliate itself before Trump No wonder Musk hates it.

Clear communication. This writer knows what they think, and what they want the reader to know.

Bravo. The new Dutch coalition government's agreement is committing to digital sovereignty (Machine translation) Original in Dutch --> www.kabinetsformatie2025.nl/site/binarie... H/T @stollmeyer.bsky.social

Meanwhile in Ireland… @tjmcintyre.com @johnnyryan.bsky.social

Former PMs to VDL “This confrontation concerns…the right of nations to govern themselves without foreign interference; and their ability to protect their children in the digital age. The question is not whether Europe can strike a deal, it is whether Europe and the rest of the world can remain free”